Category: Italian
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How to Make Chicken Cutlets
Chicken cutlets are a favorite around here. I vary them now and then but our absolute favorite is how I prepared them tonight. The variations I’ve done over the years include pounding rather than slicing thinly, eggs and water for the binding rather than eggs and soy sauce and lemon juice, not marinating at all,…
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Dom DeLuise’s Egg Croquettes
Dom DeLuise died today. I have two of his cookbooks, Eat This .. It’ll Make You Feel Better and Eat This Too: It’ll Make You Feel Better. Both have some great recipes and are fun to read besides. After hearing he died I decided to alter my dinner plans and cook something from one of…
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Cheese and Spinach Stuffed Shells Recipe
These cheese and spinach stuffed shells were good! The girls protested the spinach a bit, but ate them up. It’s funny because they would each happily eat spinach alone as a side dish. I don’t really like cooked spinach so liked it this way. I started with this recipe from Karen Cooks. I used half…
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Prosciutto Breakfast Bagel
When I was looking through the Scarpetta cookbook, I spotted Marino’s Breakfast Bagel Sandwich and noted it mentally. Then when I went shopping the prosciutto just about jumped into my shopping basket. NOT cheap cooking. But very delicious. I bought some onion bagels, prosciutto, and Swiss cheese. Split the bagels in half and toasted one…
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Italian Meatballs with Ground Pork and Ground Beef
This is essentially how my ex-MIL taught me how to make meatballs and they are very good! You can bake them in the oven if you’d rather. I was stovetop intensive yesterday so just cooked them in a skillet. I used some in the lasagna and froze the rest for other uses later, like Meatball…